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About the Author Shannon Yrizarry is an astrology writer, dream interpreter, healer, kundalini yoga teacher, and clairvoyant. She offers Reiki treatments, clairvoyant readings, and tarot and oracle card readings. She began offering readings in person in Los Angeles County at the Crystal Matrix in Glendale. She went on to offer readings in Orange County, California, at the Crystal Cave. She eventually became a healer and teacher at House of Intuition and filmed her classes online at HOI.TV.com. Shannon has been featured on Refinery29, the Zoe Report, and Viceland TV. She writes about tarot, astrology, meditation, yoga, and more for AstrologyAnswers.com and DailyLife.com and has recently been published in The Sedona Journal of Emergence and Light of Consciousness magazines.
PSYCHIC YOGA Ignite Your Intuition with Chakra and Energy Work
Shannon Yrizarry
Llewellyn Publications woodbury, minnesota
Psychic Yoga: Ignite Your Intuition with Chakra and Energy Work © 2020 by Shannon Yrizarry. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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First Printing, 2020 Book design by Rebecca Zins Cover design by Shannon McKuhen Illustrations by Llewellyn Art Department Llewellyn Publications is a registered trademark of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Yrizarry, Shannon, author. Title: Psychic yoga : ignite your intuition with chakra and energy work / Shannon Yrizarry. Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Worldwide, 2020. | Includes index. | Summary: “Develop your psychic abilities and raise your frequency with nearly one hundred easy-to-use yoga poses that activate your chakras”—Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020005072 (print) | LCCN 2020005073 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738764467 (paperback) | ISBN 9780738764573 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Yoga. | Chakras. | Meditation. | Psychic ability. Classification: LCC B132.Y6 Y75 2020 (print) | LCC B132.Y6 (ebook) | DDC 613.7/046—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020005072 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020005073
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Acknowledgments I thank my teachers Lori Board Camacho, Tej, and Harijiwan. Thank you to the authors who inspired me to develop my intuition by painstakingly writing their knowledge: Mark Borax, Elias Lonsdale, Doreen Virtue, Scott Cunningham, Sonia Choquette, Stephen Hermann, Dan Millman, Don Miguel Ruiz, Lazaris, Barbara Hand Clow, Duane Packer, Sanaya Roman, Deepak Chopra, Cyndi Dale, Yogi Bhajan, and Paramahansa Yogananda. Without their dedication to spreading esoteric and spiritual education, I would not be able to present this book to the world. Also, thanks to those guiding us from the other side. While writing this book, I found the support of the spiritual realms helpful, and may you, the reader, be reminded that they are always there to lift your energy when you ask. Thank you to those who have the courage to study this topic; we all are a part of the evolution of consciousness on this planet.
Disclaimer This book is not meant to diagnose, treat, or replace medical advice. If you are experiencing any medical conditions, consult your doctor. If you are unsure if a pose is safe for you, consult your doctor. Some poses are not advised for those who are pregnant or have just given birth. Before beginning any new exercise regimen, it is advised that you consult with your doctor if you have any medical condition or injury. The writer, Shannon Yrizarry, and publisher, Llewellyn Worldwide, waive all responsibility for injuries occurred while practicing the poses and exercises in this book. Practice at your own risk.
Contents Introduction … 1
1: The Basics of Yoga, Chakras, and Psychic Development 5 An Expanded Understanding of Yoga … 7 Your Chakras: The Doors to Intuition … 9
2: Breathing Exercises to Activate Intuition 15 One-Minute Breath … 17 Powerful Deep Breathing … 20 Breath of Fire … 22 Left Nostril Breathing … 25 Intuition Check-In … 26
3: Simple Meditations to Increase Psychic Abilities 27 Chant Om for Ten Minutes … 29 Meditation to Clear Your Chakras … 30 Meditation to Bring Energy to Your Third Eye … 32 Meditation to Expand Your Aura … 34 Candle Gazing … 35 Intuition Check-In … 36
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4: Inversions to Activate Upper Chakras 39 Downward-Facing Dog … 41 Bridge Pose … 44 Standing Forward Fold … 47 Shoulder Stand … 50 Puppy Pose … 53 Headstand … 56 Intuition Check-In … 59
5: Poses for the Root Chakra 61 Affirmation for the Root Chakra … 63 Chair … 64 Tree … 67 Hero … 70 Mountain … 73 Warrior I … 76 Yoga Squat … 79 Half-Sleeping Pigeon … 82 Root Chakra Check-In … 84 Intuition Check-In … 85 Meditation for the Root Chakra … 86
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6: Poses for the Sacral Chakra 91 Affirmation for the Sacral Chakra … 93 Goddess Squat … 94 Seated Twist … 96 Crescent Lunge … 99 Firelog … 101 Frog … 103 Happy Baby … 105 Sacral Chakra Check-In … 107 Intuition Check-In … 107 Meditation for the Sacral Chakra … 108
7: Poses for the Solar Plexus Chakra 113 Affirmation for the Solar Plexus Chakra … 115 Side Plank … 116 Boat … 118 Warrior II … 120 Sphinx … 122 Eagle … 125 Triangle … 128 Solar Plexus Chakra Check-In … 130 Intuition Check-In … 130 Meditation for the Solar Plexus Chakra … 130
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8: Poses for the Heart Chakra 135 Affirmation for the Heart Chakra … 137 Cobra … 138 Reverse Plank … 141 Cat/Cow … 143 Camel … 146 Seated Forward Fold … 149 Seated Wide-Legged Forward Fold … 151 Heart Chakra Check-In … 153 Intuition Check-In … 154 Meditation for the Heart Chakra … 154
9: Poses for the Throat Chakra 159 Affirmation for the Throat Chakra … 161 Plow … 162 Thread the Needle … 165 Cow Face … 167 Dancer’s Pose … 170 Fish … 173 Bow … 175 Throat Chakra Check-In … 176 Intuition Check-In … 177 Meditation for the Throat Chakra … 178
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10: Poses for the Third Eye Chakra 183 Affirmation for the Third Eye Chakra … 185 Child’s Pose … 186 Diamond … 188 Standing Wide-Legged Forward Fold … 190 Savasana … 192 Humble Warrior … 195 Head to Knee … 198 Third Eye Chakra Check-In … 200 Intuition Check-In … 200 Meditation for the Third Eye Chakra … 201
11: Poses for the Crown Chakra 205 Affirmation for the Crown Chakra … 206 Rabbit … 207 Legs Up the Wall … 209 Dolphin … 212 Reclined Butterfly … 214 Half Lotus … 216 Warrior III … 218 Wheel … 220 Crown Chakra Check-In … 221 Intuition Check-In … 222 Meditation for the Crown Chakra … 222
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12: Poses for the Aura: The Eighth Chakra 227 Affirmation for the Eighth Chakra … 229 Fists of Anger … 230 Ego Eradicator … 233 Windmills … 236 Sat Kriya … 238 Spinal Twist … 241 Life Nerve Stretch … 243 Spinal Flexes … 245 Stretch Pose … 247 Frogs … 249 Meditation for the Eighth Chakra … 250 Conclusion … 255 Appendix: Chakra Reference Chart … 257 Glossary … 261 Index of Yoga Poses, Breathing Exercises, Meditations, and Kriyas … 265
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oga is a method of daily practice that raises your frequency. The energy in your body at any given time may be at a low or high frequency, and the more you’re able to get your energy in a high frequency, the easier it will be to access psychic knowledge. Let’s say that anger is a low frequency and love is a high frequency. In order to get to a higher frequency, we practice meditation and use yoga poses that activate the upper chakras, which are the access points for our intuitive abilities. The upper four chakras will be activated by the exercises in this book if you’re consistently practicing them. I’ve included yogic breathing exercises and simple yogic meditations that you can use on your journey to meet your soul. Congratulations! You’re developing the most important relationship in your life.
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There are seven chakras inside your body and one large chakra around it that is also called the aura. The chakras in the body are where your nerves bundle together and there is a concentration of energy there. The prana (life force) that runs through your body can be stuck in the lower three chakras if you have a poor diet, have negative thoughts, or are focused a lot on nonspiritual goals. Any of those behaviors can be shifted, and the yoga poses you’ll learn in this book, as well as the breathing and meditation exercises, will make it easier to have more energy, make good food choices, and have a habit of positive thinking. Yoga harmonizes your mind, body, and soul so that life becomes easier. If you thought this was going to be like an academic test or a physical fitness test, it’s actually quite the opposite. This is about love, learning how to change your emotions, and learning about the power that is within relaxation. As we shut the mind off, we find the answers are already there, waiting for us. The ancient yogis have been able to use their intuition to see the future, know things about people, and even connect to the spirits of the deceased. It’s well documented that these seemingly supernatural psychic abilities exist, and this book is your easy-to-use manual to developing those same gifts. Before you start doubting that you have any special abilities, it’s important to know that everyone can develop psychic abilities. We all have the hardware in our body to be able to tap into the unseen realms. Movies make it seem like psychic powers are either just a fairy tale or something only a gifted few possess, but I invite you to open your mind to the simple techniques in this book that will get your intuition open and your psychic abilities turned on. Intuition is often a gut feeling or a sense you have about something. You are probably already working with one or more types of intuition. Clairvoyance is the type of intuition where you see images and visions in your mind’s eye. Clairsentience is the type of intuition where you feel sensations or emotions in your body that reveal information. Claircognizance is a knowing that is deep within you or in your conscious mind without explanation. Finally, clairaudience is hearing through the mind, which is like when you recall something in your memory but do not hear it outside of yourself. Some psychics are 2
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able to see the future, but being intuitive can help you in many other ways that may not involve predicting what’s to come. You can study each form of psychic abilities much more in depth, but this book is going to help you begin the process. If you’re looking for deeper meaning in life or are wanting to heal yourself from past experiences, developing psychic awareness is the place to start. When you understand the mechanics of intuition that we will discuss, you’ll understand how the yogis were able to know things by reading minds or seeing the future. It’s important to note that the future isn’t written in stone, so any future reading is merely an imprint of where the energy is projecting and can be altered. It’s only a probable outcome. Psychic abilities are a lot of fun, and developing them gives you a tremendous amount of confidence to make decisions that are in your best interest. Psychic abilities can help you choose the right job, partner, and activities to achieve lasting happiness. If you’re curious about becoming psychic, this is a great book for you. The wisdom that is offered in a simple and fun way in this book will also help you overcome any fears about psychic powers that may have come from sensationalized shows about ghosts or paranormal stories. Psychic abilities help you know how to make small decisions throughout the day and big life moves. You’ll start finding you trust those gut feelings much more and then later find out why. You will start to get glimpses of the future, which is a fun reminder that we are all connected. More than anything, psychic powers help you overcome feeling alone or afraid because it opens you to the spirit world, where we do not have to fear the transition from the body to the next step in our soul’s journey. It helps you deal with the bigger challenges life can throw at you because you start seeing the energy behind experiences and learning lessons instead of feeling helpless. It will help you know people’s true intentions and personal struggles so you can empathize and have the ability to navigate relationships from a deeper knowing than just what things look like. This book not only gives you insights from my professional experience as a yoga teacher and clairvoyant, but it also offers you the ability to 3
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heal yourself. Psychic abilities can be accessed by awakening the aura and chakras with yoga. You will start to experience your own life shifting and your consciousness transforming. I hope you find that this book empowers you to get into the flow of your soul and the connection of your own higher self so you can be guided and so your life can be blessed. The more people that awaken to their intuition on this planet and find a spiritual connection, the greater chances we have of shifting the manner in which we engage with nature and treat Mother Earth. The more people that hold a high vibration on this planet, the closer we all get to peace. Besides having a great effect on the globe, developing your psychic abilities can help you psychically heal yourself. Because everything is energy, many of our sicknesses and diseases can be mitigated and healed on a psychic level. When we find the energetic root of our pain or disease, we can often heal in ways that doctors do not have the capacity to understand. In many cultures, healing and medicine are energetic processes. Preventing sickness is a lifestyle of emotional maintenance and spiritual discipline.
How to Use This Book You may progress through this book one chapter at a time and allow yourself to really digest and experience the subtle changes that occur as you practice. Practicing each chapter for a month at a time would allow for great insights and transformation with each chakra; however, if you ever feel called to work on a specific chakra, go to the chapter that corresponds to that chakra anytime. Ultimately, you will sense both how you want to use this book and the pace that feels right to you. Each person will find their own way of using the meditations, breathing exercises, yoga poses, and journal reflection work. This book will help you gain a basic understanding of yoga poses and how to open your intuition. Experienced yoga practitioners will learn a new way to practice that targets intuition development. Ultimately, doing something each day is the best path forward. How hungry you are for transformation will determine what you are able to glean from this book.
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elcome to a book that will open you to a new world and a new way of thinking. When you experience intuition, you will start to understand the energy that pervades all things, and you will begin to see how all things are connected. You will learn three basic modalities through this book—yoga poses, breathing exercises, and meditation—that are going to lay the foundation for your psychic development. Being psychic doesn’t mean you need to be a fortuneteller. In today’s day and age, it will help you make decisions, figure out what job is best for you, and navigate life from a soul level. We are faced with many injustices and corruption in our world that can make us feel isolated or fearful that we will 5
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have to compromise our morals. Developing your psychic abilities opens you to see that is not the case at all and that you are not isolated or powerless. As you learn about yoga poses, your chakras, and how to begin to open your intuition, you’ll find the universe supports you and guides you. You will find that we are supported in our intuition by a loving energy I like to think of like the Force in Star Wars. That energy is very real, and it will help you sense and communicate with the spirit world, which is always there, working on the other side, to help humanity evolve. As the planet goes through its psychological growing pains, the people who develop a lifestyle that works to connect them to a higher state of consciousness will be the ones that can both enjoy the growth and aid it. While these big ideas may have you scratching your head and wondering how you can help change the planet, know that your energy, no matter how peaceful or angry, is sending out vibrations to the world, and the more you heal your own heart and mind, the more peaceful this world becomes. So let’s take these big ideas and start to bring them home and apply them to you and your day-to-day life. When you are able to make small decisions each day that will support your psychic development, your life will start to feel like you’re more in control, and you will even be able to know things that will help you become successful, happy, and healthy. That’s a big promise, I know, but it is not unrealistic. There are many people who do not know they are intuitive but are using their intuition all the time. How many times have you heard someone say “it gave me the wrong vibe” or “I had a feeling that would happen”? The truth is, intuition is accessible by everyone, but the mind often distracts us. Because we are raised to value math and science more than art, we have developed the brain’s logical side without much attention to the brain’s creative side. To shift our energy, we can turn to the time-tested practices given to us by the yogis, which helps us start using both sides of the brain and sense subtle energy as if its volume were suddenly turned up like a song on the radio.
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This is a very exciting endeavor, and it can help you learn how to overcome fear and handle situations at work, relationships, health, and tragedies. It will help you see how your own energy attracts things to you, and it will help you learn how to manifest by focusing your mind. But before I spoil the surprise, let’s talk about the nuts and bolts: your body and mind. I am not asking you to go through a rigorous boot camp; it’s quite the opposite, actually. This process is about being gentle and getting to know subtle energy by finding stillness. If you felt like you were going to have to study and push and struggle, as you probably are used to from spending years and years in school, well, you just don’t. You actually will be unlearning those habits and shutting your mind off. As you learn how to go into deep states of relaxation, you will begin to hear the voice of your soul, the wisdom of the spirit world, and the support of your own higher self.
An Expanded Understanding of Yoga To begin, let’s discuss what yoga actually is. It was developed thousands of years ago and has been passed on from teacher to student ever since. It is not just a physical form of exercise; that is actually a common misunderstanding. The meaning of the word yoga is “to yoke.” It essentially allows you to connect to the energy that connects us all so you can flow with it and sense how to harmonize the energy on the planet by reducing pain and suffering. It allows you to align your life with the greater good from an energetic and physical approach. It unlocks the energy in the body so it can flow, and it opens our consciousness to perceive beyond the limits of the mind. Above the mind is supreme consciousness, or a state of oneness where you experience your identity beyond your body. Yoga involves physical poses, breathing exercises, the chanting of sounds to direct the mind, and even meditations to train it. It has branches of philosophical study that provide ideas to help you think more compassionately toward yourself and the world. The difference between yoga and other forms of philosophy is that it allows you to physically experience something instead of just thinking about things. 7
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What you will learn in this book are simple movements, breathing techniques, mantras (chanting), and meditations that, over time, will help to harmonize all the major systems of your body. As you do the exercises in this book, you will start to notice how the energy that keeps your heart ticking has more intricacies. Think of the movements and meditations as keys that will unlock doors to new abilities. Just as we learned to speak and drive cars, we can all learn to be psychic with this ancient system of yoga. The poses are divided into categories based on the chakras they most strongly activate. A chakra is basically a bundle of nerves that links to our emotions and affects the health of the physical organs near it. There are seven main chakras in the body, which are concentrations of our life-force energy. That energy flows in and out of our body through those chakras. These ports of entry and exit move energy through our aura, which surrounds our body. The edge of our body’s energy field is not like a wall but more like a sponge that picks up on the energy around it. Chanting and using mantras are traditional ways to move energy by creating emotional states with the sound currents that activate specific chakras. There is nothing to fear about chanting or mantras. The sound may feel a bit ominous, and if you were raised in a religious community, you may have been told that yoga was of the devil. However, there is nothing evil about yoga or chanting. Often systems that promote fear of other systems only lack a deeper understanding of those they are putting down. When I was going through my first yoga teacher training, a friend who was a born-again Christian warned me that yoga was of the devil. Having been raised in a religious society, I was familiar with this fearbased perspective. I knew she was coming from a place of compassion but didn’t know what the energy of the body was, nor that yoga could be used to open intuition in a nonreligious way. I have been in clairvoyant classes with people of all religions and yoga classes with people of all religions. Improving your health and intuition can be done in addition to religion, if that is what you choose. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.
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Your Chakras: The Doors to Intuition Here is a basic introduction to your chakras, including the eighth chakra, the aura chakra, that surrounds your body. The first chakra, your root chakra, is the one that connects you to the physical world. It is more primal than all the other chakras, which means it is linked to your need to eat, digest, and procreate, which are the same traits we share with animals. If you were to only have energy in this chakra, you would lack wisdom to make more humane choices. This is the chakra that helps alert you to danger and threats, helping you survive as an animal does in the wild. It is also where your energy and vitality is stored, and it is a necessary chakra because it helps you provide for yourself. The sacral chakra, the second chakra, still connects to your more primal instincts and houses the energy of the reproductive organs. It essentially is the growing house for your desires. It allows you to enjoy being in your body and connect intimately. It stores a large amount of energy, which we call passion. If you’ve been the object of someone’s affection who doesn’t have other outlets or interests, you’ve felt the energy. If you only activate the energy in this chakra, it can lead to addiction or obsession. It is a necessary chakra because it allows you to use that energy to fuel your goals and even to send your energy out to create the life you desire. It holds your ability to manifest because it is what creates strong emotions and thus strong energy. The solar plexus chakra is the third chakra in what is known as the bottom triangle. This chakra houses confidence and willpower. If energy is too concentrated here, it can lead to being a dictator, but if the energy is depleted, you will feel incapable of leading your life. In between what is known as the bottom triangle and upper triangle is the heart chakra, your fourth chakra. This is the gateway to the higher realms of consciousness found in the upper triangle. This chakra allows you to move beyond your primal desires and personal agenda to feel compassion for the world and the suffering of others. If it is depleted or
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blocked, you will have trouble loving yourself, but if it is overactive, you can give too much of your energy to helping others. The upper triangle—made up of the fifth, sixth, and seventh chakras— is going to help you awaken your psychic abilities. The throat chakra, your fifth chakra, is what will allow the writers and revolutionaries of our time to share their new ideas for helping society. It is also how we will change things in our own lives by speaking up for what is right and setting healthy boundaries for ourselves. An overactive throat chakra not only leads to talking over people, but it can also mean you aren’t able to listen to others and make them feel you care. An underactive throat chakra means you don’t speak up or you lie or maybe even muddle things so much that it drains your energy and everyone else’s trying to understand what you are conveying. The third eye chakra, the sixth chakra, is linked to your intuition and sixth sense. It is a major focus of this book, and the techniques you will learn here will help activate it. When underactive, this chakra leads to confusion, paranoia, and decision paralysis. When active, you’re connected to a network of information that can bring your consciousness to new places and levels of understanding reality. It gives you hunches and gut feelings. The crown chakra, the seventh chakra, is linked to the spirit world and allows you to find a sense of purpose for your life. When this chakra is active, you can navigate for the highest good; when underactive, you feel depressed and alone. The final chakra we will discuss is the eighth chakra, the aura chakra. Your aura can be diminished in strength by negative thoughts or strengthened by positive ones. Its charge greatly affects what you attract to you and how others perceive you. It is also important to clear it in order to read others clearly without projecting your own energy onto them. It is key to your process of psychic development and is most directly influenced by the breathing exercises you’ll learn in chapter 2.
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You will get to know each chakra as you go through this book, as well as the body parts and symptoms they are tied to. This book will help guide you to sense the subtle energy that starts to become amplified as you practice yoga and get more in touch with your own body, your breath, and your energy. Each chapter has discussions about developing your intuition that will help direct your mind to notice the changes that are taking place. As you are able to move and breathe in a more specific way, your body will work as a telephone to your intuition. When you make a phone call, you have to dial the correct numbers to get the energetic connection. Yoga poses, breathing techniques, and meditations are a system that people have used to call their intuition for a very long time. While there are many techniques and approaches to psychic development, yogic techniques activate and strengthen your energy the fastest. Many processes to activating psychic energy exist today; tarot, plant medicine, and even psychedelics are examples of how people access their intuition. The practice of yoga is essentially like hacking your own energy to strengthen that connection naturally, without harming your brain or risking harming it. Developing intuition will allow you to sense the intentions of others yes, but it will also be a strong mirror for you of your own intentions. This journey is much more internal than external and you will find that each time you sit to meditate there will be a little more familiarity with the process of going within. You can expect yourself to become more sensitive to energy in this process, so take time to sit with yourself and allow yourself to heal. Often in the beginning phases of psychic development, there can be strong emotions that surface over the course of a couple of years. The reason I bring this up is so that you will be gentle with yourself as you stir the pot of your old emotional wounds so you can clean it out. Just as people who go through a physical detox often experience temporary symptoms of sickness, emotional detox can be just as intense. You may need more time to yourself to process and clear your emotions, which will inevitably free you from them and help you know yourself and your true identity, which is the most important relationship you will ever develop. 11
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Try do something every day from this book—over time, you will digest the information. Talking about your intuition is like learning a new language, and the experiences you have in your own healing process will be a part of that language. As you move your body and develop a stronger breath capacity, you’re essentially changing the frequency you are able to perceive. Think about how in the visible light spectrum, we see certain things, but those colors we see are wavelengths. Our ears can only hear certain wavelengths, or frequencies, although some of the most powerful sounds that can move physical objects are beyond what our ears can hear. You are developing your sense of intuition, which will soon become just as strong as your senses that allow you to taste, hear, and see. Intuition is not a fairytale idea but a very sophisticated and suppressed form of sensing that is recorded in all sacred texts and has been well documented, researched, and proved as real. Intuition has been used to locate lost children, solve crimes, pinpoint undiagnosed medical conditions, connect to the consciousness of the deceased, and predict major and minor events. The world you are stepping into is going to change your life and transform you. It will help you see your deepest thought patterns and where they came from. It will help you know how you can best guide others to feel better. While you don’t yet know where it will lead you, sense how your heart feels after reading this chapter. Sense the energy you feel even upon reading about this. There is a reason you found this book, and you can be sure it is a good one. Let’s say someone wanted to develop psychic abilities, but they were a very angry person who was getting into fights with others frequently. While yoga can help release anger, one should focus on developing psychic abilities as a way to heal your own energy and start to understand how to be a more positive person in the way you respond to the environment around you. The more you surround yourself with positive music, kind people, and uplifting words, the more quickly you can shift your own energy from negative to positive. This development of psychic abilities can help us shift to become a more positive person and therefore a more empowered person if we keep the intention to look within 12
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to direct our own thoughts and release negativity. As you embark upon this journey, it is best that you turn your thoughts toward positive healing and away from negativity or people or places that provoke fear and other negative emotions in you. You can always visualize a bubble of positive energy around you to clear lower vibrations. You can also state (out loud or mentally), “Only positive energy is allowed around me.�
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strengthen, as will the layers of abdominal muscles. With practice, you’ll find it easier to hold your breath, expand your breath capacity, and keep up with rhythmic breathing, so be patient. Breathing helps us relax and turn our brain off so we can tap into our intuition, where information starts to flow to us without effort. Breathing exercises are a part of the daily practice for clairvoyants and remote viewers (being able to travel in your mind to see things was a skill used by governments during the Cold War). Essentially, breathing does three main things: it clears our aura of negative imprints that lower our vibration, it activates the relaxation response in our nervous system, and it gives us more prana (life force) so we can be better conductors of energy. You will have a hard time connecting to your psychic abilities without breathing exercises, and that is why most clairvoyant or intuition development meditations begin with breathing. Try it: just take a deep breath in and out of your nose, and notice if you feel a little different and brighter right away. If your goal is to become a professional psychic, you’ll want to use breathing techniques to expand your aura to pick up on the energy of those around you. You will start surprising people by knowing what is going on with them even when they are not around you. Some yogis have been able to expand their aura massively to be able to sense things far away from their physical body. Unfortunately, most people have no connection to their breath, and their anxiety stems from unconsciously holding their breath. If you can regulate your breath, you can also regulate your energy. It’s one of the most important relationships you can develop in opening to your psychic abilities. While there are many breathing techniques gifted to us by the thousands of years of study left by the ancient yogis, we are going to focus on four main ones to keep it simple. They are powerful and great for overcoming depression or low energy. If you are empathic (and if you’re reading this book, you probably are), it will be essential to help you from feeling overwhelmed by the energy around you. Daily breathwork helps clear the energy you pick up from the environment and the energy produced
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by your own subconscious. To be clear—which is the definition of clairvoyant—you must clear your own aura.
One-Minute Breath Some yogis take on this breathing technique as a lifetime endeavor because it is challenging. Their goal is to be able to activate the oneminute breath at any time. It can be very hard to do if your heart rate is fast, and you’ll find it’s much easier when you’re relaxed and already calm. This is a great way to quickly tap into your intuition at any moment throughout your day if you need help making a decision. If you can’t do it fully, that’s normal, and it will come over time. The main point is that you breathe in, hold your breath, and exhale for the same amount of time. Maybe that is five seconds, seven seconds, ten seconds, or a full twenty seconds. If you feel like you’re going to pass out, that is not the point. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone with this. Just do it so that it’s comfortable, and don’t focus on trying to be the best or hold your breath the longest. Instead focus on how calm the breathing technique makes you feel and the state of mind it allows you to reach. Eventually you will be able to expand the lower lobes of the lungs and the upper lobes of the lungs so you can hold more oxygen. Another benefit of breathing is the euphoric feeling it offers you. As you bring more prana in, you’ll feel creative, optimistic, and suddenly see solutions, as if the prana is connecting the dots for your brain. That is the result of raising your vibration and adding energy to your energetic body. To begin, sit in a cross-legged position or on a chair with your feet flat on the floor. Your spine needs to be straight and your shoulders should not be hunched forward. Sit tall, like a yogi. Your hands can rest in your lap or on your thighs in the receiving position, with your palms facing up. Start with just three minutes and breathe in for five seconds, hold for five seconds, and breathe out for five seconds. Each time you do the one-minute breath, you’ll be improving your breath capacity. To be clear,
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the reason it’s called the one-minute breath is because if you breathe in for twenty seconds, hold for twenty seconds, and breathe out for twenty seconds, it takes one minute. Keep your eyes closed and focused on your third eye as you do this exercise. When you breathe in, think of expanding the stomach and lower lobes of the ribs as well as the back ribs. Expand the middle ribs and then fill the top of the lungs all the way. You’re only breathing through the nose and you’ll find that just allowing a small stream of air in and out at a time will allow you to extend the length of time you can do this. If you ever need to calm yourself down, use this technique for three breaths and you’ll find it induces a feeling of calmness. The reason this breathing technique is listed first is because it induces a relaxed state and slows the active mind. It’s very hard to tune into the information in your third eye if your brain is thinking. The interesting and strange thing about intuition is that you just have to stop doing and thinking, totally relax, and not filter the information that comes through. The more you can get to a blank space with no thoughts, the easier it will be to see the images that come from someone else’s energy field. You will get used to perceiving in this blank space with practice, and any psychic you speak to will be familiar with the necessary step of going blank or finding point zero. It’s important to note that a psychic cannot force information to show up or any type of information to be brought to them. They are at the will of spirit and their guides, and they can do their best work by keeping their vibration high enough to perceive the highest possible realms of consciousness. Use the one-minute breath before sitting down to do a meditation each day and before you use oracle or tarot cards. Giving someone a practice reading will even be easier if you do this breath before you invite them to sit down in front of you. You can even do readings remotely and eventually get accurate information by being clear, but you will not give people a good impression if your aura is clouded with negativity. If you want to be a successful psychic, it’s well known in the field that you must do
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the work. The work is clearing your own emotions. One kundalini yoga teacher explained it well: thoughtforms that are constantly running in the back of our mind are hungry and want us to think of similar thoughts so they can live. They feed on and grow if we let the subconscious run freely and do nothing to clear it. Without breathing exercises, your own aura can get really heavy and you would attract negative-vibration people to you for readings. Doing the breathing work will actually attract more positive, kind, and open people to you. Because of the law of attraction, if you do end up doing readings professionally, you’ll see that you will attract people that are dealing with the same emotions as you. Getting yourself in a positive and loving state with breathing exercises will also help you in your daily life. You don’t have to be doing readings to see the law of attraction. You can be psychic in any job and it can help you. If you see everyone around you is negative, that’s a psychic clue to do some breathwork right away.
Fun Fact: The original yoga was called raj yoga or laya yoga, which involved kriyas to awaken the kundalini energy and open intuition. Today kriya yoga and kundalini yoga still include the ancient yogic practices for psychic development. There are twenty-two main branches of yoga today in the West. Most Westerners think yoga is just exercise because of misinformation.
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Powerful Deep Breathing This breathing technique helps clear your aura and expand it. It’s good to use during meditation to keep yourself focused and throughout the day while driving, working, and talking to people. You can do deep breathing anywhere and no one has to know you’re doing it. It will help you stay tuned into your psychic side. The more you use this, the more it will become a habit and you’ll find you’re tuned in psychically all the time. Yogis use breath to regulate their energy all day, and that practice is what gives them many kinds of legendary abilities. There are stories of yogis who don’t sleep, who levitate, who see the future, and who can generate scents out of thin air. When you start getting extrasensory perception, it doesn’t seem too strange anymore that these gifts manifest. This breath helps prepare you for meditation by quickly charging your vibration. You will want to sit with a straight spine either on a chair or in a cross-legged position. You’ll notice how fast and effective this technique is after your first time doing it. This technique is what I did in the clairvoyant classes I took that allowed me to become a professional clairvoyant. It comes from the pranayama (breathing techniques) of the yogis. If you’re ever having trouble getting into a deep meditation and cannot focus, this is the breath to use. If you find yourself thinking too much or unable to get any clear information, use this breath. This is unique in that you breathe in your nose and out of your mouth. You will breathe powerfully in your nose, filling your lungs. This can be a quick powerful inhale making sure you fill all the way to the top of your lungs. Then imagine you’re pushing your aura out and clearing it as you powerfully exhale through pursed lips. Some people refer to this as a cannon fire exhale because it is as if you’re releasing built-up pressure and it comes firing out as if it was a cannonball. It will be a louder breathing technique, and there’s nothing wrong with that. If you don’t hear anything, you’re not breathing enough. If you are nervous to breathe loudly, find a space where you can be alone and play some calming spiritual music. As you develop your psychic
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abilities, you will come up against your own anxiety about being judged for what you’re doing. There is still a tremendous catching up that society needs to do when it comes to understanding psychic mechanisms we all can access as well as the fear that was implanted deeply into our collective consciousness about these abilities. My best advice is that when you feel nervous about meditating or feel afraid of being judged, ask yourself if that environment or person is really a necessary part of your life and if you need a more empowered, spiritually aware environment. You will find your life undergoes many changes as you raise your vibration and open psychically, and often the people who aren’t treating you well will fade out of your life. As your vibration raises, you’ll attract nicer people and healthier environments as well. Do the deep, powerful breathing for one to three minutes to get into a deep meditative state. You can also do it three times if you need to tap into your intuition quickly throughout the day or if you notice yourself feeling off. After you do the powerful deep breathing, allow yourself to just sit and breathe normally and sense the calm state you’re in. You’ll feel more tuned in and present. This can help you get to what we often refer to as point zero. It’s as if your mind is so blank that it doesn’t know anything in that moment. This point zero is valuable for increasing psychic abilities because you’re not holding any expectations for what will show up. It actually allows you to be more open to the types of information, and often surprising information, that shows up. It takes your own bias and filters out of the equation so you can be a more clear channel. You can also visualize a purple aura surrounding you. In your mind’s eye, push that aura out as you exhale. This purple energy is the color that resonates with your third eye, and focusing on your aura will help you tune into the subtle energy that is communicated through it. You will start to know people’s thoughts and feelings by visualizing your aura more frequently because it stores emotional imprints. You can also notice if it seems cloudy, and this can clue you in to knowing if you should do extra breathing exercises to clear it. Most people have a small aura that
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only extends a few inches from their body, making it harder to intuitively perceive the energy around them. As you charge up your aura, you can perceive more clearly, like tuning into a radio station by having a large tower.
Breath of Fire This is my favorite breathing technique and something that can help you recover from trauma. When you go through a stressful experience, your aura often is depleted and your chakras are left sputtering along with less-than-optimal energetic fuel. Breath of fire rebuilds the nervous system, allowing you to raise your vibration and hold more energy to be a clear channel for guides. When you charge up your energy field, you can handle the energy of people you work with as a psychic or in any job because their energy will not overwhelm or overpower yours. This breathing technique takes a bit more practice to get the hang of, but it’s completely doable. You also get a real yogi high from it, so that can help reduce your cravings for the wine or weed that often soothe the nerves but hurt the pocket and body. Breath of fire is one of the most commonly used yogic breathing techniques because of its fast effects on our state of mind. This is essentially like hitting the reset button on the Nintendo game, but it’s for our subconscious mind. That subconscious mind can cloud your aura if it’s not tended to on a daily basis. The reason I do thirty minutes of breath of fire daily is because I know I still have old thought patterns that can build up in my aura. Even a seasoned clairvoyant still has to do the work to stay clear. Many psychics went through a trauma or series of traumas that turned their intuition on in order to help them survive. A clairvoyant I know almost died of a drug overdose, and since that moment, her psychic eye was opened because she almost died and had to see a way out. If you have found you have some intuition but are unsure how to use it, following the techniques in this book will allow you to open it further and see how helpful it can be. You may be shocked when you blurt out something to someone you picked up intuitively and it’s accurate or when a guide 22
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delivers information you couldn’t have known that blows your mind. However, this will become your new normal. Please note that breath of fire should not be done if you’re on the first three days of the menstrual cycle or pregnant. It may also be difficult if you’ve just eaten, so try to do it before meals or once your food has digested so you don’t get a stomachache. To begin breath of fire, either sit in a cross-legged position with the neck lock and a straight spine or in a chair. Place your fingertips on your belly button and breathe in your nose. Forcefully exhale through your nose as you snap your belly button in and press in with your fingers. Let the inhale happen naturally and the stomach will expand again. Create a rhythm focusing on the exhale. You can begin slowly; eventually, maybe after a few weeks or months, you can speed it up. You may get a side cramp when you’re building your endurance, and that’s normal. Start out with one minute each day for a week. If you find it easy, try seven minutes of breath of fire. When you finish, take a deep breath in and hold it for fifteen seconds. Let your air out and notice how you feel. Eventually you can build up to eleven minutes daily, which is sufficient for the work you’re doing. If you feel like you want extra support to manage stress or recharge your energy after a difficult life experience, you may want to build all the way up to thirty minutes daily. To keep a rhythm, you can play a mantra that has a regular beat or find something that you like with a fast-enough pace that you feel like you’re energized from it. I often keep a journal next to me because ideas start flowing after about fifteen minutes. Breath of fire is not practiced by all psychics, but it is a very helpful tool that will transform your health and well-being. There are many additional benefits to this technique that work to harmonize your overall health and consequently will raise your vibration. If you aim to feel positive and help people heal on a deep level, I recommend this breathing technique. You’ll be able to stay in a high-vibration place and possibly even learn to channel. This breathing technique activates your metabolism by building heat in the body and can help you burn calories. It boosts your confidence by 23
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activating the third chakra with the stomach movement and it purifies the bloodstream. Having more oxygen in your blood helps you build muscles and think clearly. It can help reduce chronic pain and even allow you to believe in your psychic abilities that may have been shut down because of low self-esteem. The benefits are monumental, and I can’t stress enough how much more information you can perceive by having this technique as a part of your daily routine. After you finish breath of fire, sit quietly in meditation and capture any thoughts or realizations that come to you in a journal. Date the journal so you can look back and see that the often seemingly meaningless messages or images do, in fact, have meaning and show up in your world soon after you receive them. This type of breathing can also reduce your nightmares because you will start thinking more positively on a daily basis, creating positive subconscious patterns. The dreams we have at night are often our subconscious running amok in our mind. If we have fear-based thought patterns, sleeping can be a real drag. However, as you raise your vibration, you can start to lucid dream and have truly inspiring dreams that may even include visitations from spiritual beings.
Fun Fact: The first woman to run for president in the US was a professional psychic. Her name was Victoria Woodhull, and she ran in 1872. She was disqualified for letting her ill ex-husband live in her home with her new husband, which was seen as immoral.
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Left Nostril Breathing This breathing technique is a calming technique that activates the relaxation response in your nervous system. While breathing through the right nostril wakes you up, breathing through the left nostril allows you to enter the deeper brainwave states that meditation requires. The right nostril activates our action-oriented mind so we can get tasks done, and it also activates the logical mind, which we need in order to get up and go. The left nostril activates the imagination, the intuition, and our creative impulses. This breathing practice has been around for thousands of years and is known to help reduce sleeplessness because of its calming properties. Begin by sitting in a cross-legged position with a straight spine or in a chair with your feet flat on the floor. Take your right thumb or index finger and block your right nostril and then begin breathing in slowly through the left nostril. Breathe slowly out of the left nostril. Continue this breath for one minute. After a minute take a deep inhale through both nostrils and hold your breath for fifteen seconds before exhaling and relaxing. If you have a deviated septum or a blocked nostril, this technique may not be available to you but don’t be disheartened. There are many other breathing techniques that can activate your psychic abilities. Once you’ve completed the minute, sit quietly and tune into the energy around you. Sense your aura and notice if there are any feelings or thoughts that are now loud in your mind asking for your attention. Just let your thoughts be soft and see what comes to you. Write it down in your journal and don’t judge it. If it seems silly or strange, still write it down. Sometimes, actually often, messages from spirit come through as poetry or in words that we wouldn’t use in our normal day. The more you take time to capture your feelings, the easier it will be.
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Intuition Check-In Now it’s time to check in with your progress and see if there is anything you’re resisting or for some reason not wanting to do. Sometimes we think of daily tasks like homework and we need to take a moment to let go of any negative associations we are holding around them that may be keeping us from creating a new habit. If you’re telling yourself a story like this is hard to do or I am bad at this, feel free to let that go. Grab your journal and do this writing exercise. The answers can be long or short, just let the truth flow from your heart. First write down that you feel this work is something you’ve always wanted to do and that your heart feels like it’s finally finding something it enjoys. Often healers find this work makes them feel alive, and it can feel familiar, as if they’ve done it before. Next write down changes you’ve noticed in yourself since getting this book, reading about psychic abilities, and doing the breathing exercises. What has started to shift in your own perspective? Write down the unusual experiences that stand out and how you’re starting to sense your intuition speaking to you more often.
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Body, Mind & Spirit / Yoga / Psychic Development
Align Your Chakras & Open Your Third Eye with Easy-to-Use Yoga Poses This approachable guide presents a powerful fusion of intuition, yoga, and chakra work that makes it easy to heighten your natural gifts, heal yourself, and overcome your biggest challenges. Featuring over fifty yoga pose illustrations, Psychic Yoga is an essential tool for developing your psychic abilities and raising your frequency.
Š Louis Fisher
Professional clairvoyant and certified yoga instructor Shannon Yrizarry guides your intuitive growth, helping you harmonize your mind, body, and soul. With her help, you can choose the right job, find the ideal romantic partner, heal from past trauma, and achieve emotional balance. Psychic Yoga shows how to open your energetic pathways and raise your vibration through breathing exercises, meditations, and more. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced practitioner looking to heighten your psychic abilities, this exceptional book increases your confidence, awareness, flexibility, and energetic wellness. SHANNON YRIZARRY is a certified yoga teacher and professional clairvoyant who has written extensively in the wellness field. She teaches meditation and leads workshops on transforming the physical and emotional self through living a yogic lifestyle. She is also a certified Reiki practitioner and has done astrology readings, dream interpretations, and tarot for celebrities and television.
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